Tilia americana
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"Basswood" redirects here. For other uses, see Basswood (disambiguation).
Tilia americana is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae, native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Oklahoma, southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska. It is the sole representative of its genus in the Western Hemisphere, assuming T. caroliniana is treated as a subspecies or local ecotype of T. americana.[2][3] Common names include American basswood[4] and American linden.
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Tilia americana | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malvales |
Family: | Malvaceae |
Genus: | Tilia |
Species: | T. americana |
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Tilia americana | |
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Synonyms | |
Tilia glabra Ventenat |
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